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True story of the first all-black lacrosse team founded in Baltimore in 1970. Team consisted of off-season college football players from Morgan State University who had never really heard of the game of lacrosse before. Their Jewish coach took them from miserable to competing and winning in the NCAA championships.

"The Club" is a golfing comedy about the owner of the fictional George Washington Carver Country Club in the Compton area of Los Angeles who attempts to solve his financial problems by luring a pro golf event to his course.

A comedy that spoofs the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, of course, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all--redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finds that there is indeed, no I in team!

"The Goal" follows the heart-wrenching journey of Topone, a young man who rises from the infamous favelas (ghettos) of Rio de Janeiro to become the number one soccer player in the world. During the Brazilian championship, tragedy strikes and Topone is in danger of losing his soccer career forever, when he is traded to the United States.

Olli Mäki loses a fight for the world championship in the second round by knockout in front of a packed stadium.

"The Heart of the Game" captures the passion and energy of a Seattle high school girls' basketball team coached by a maverick tax professor and tells the incredible true story of one player's fight to play the game she loves.

After leading the USSR to a gold medal (and victory over the U.S.A.) at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis were poster boys for their oppressor's sports machine. Four years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as symbols of democracy, helping their country break free from the shackles of Communism, and willing newly independent Lithuania to the medal stand at the Barcelona Olympics. "The Other Dream Team" documents the Lithuanians' experiences behind the Iron Curtain for 50 years, where elite athletes were subjected to brutalities of Communist rule. As they hid from KGB agents and feared for their lives, Lithuania's basketball stars always shared a common goal--to utilize their athletic gifts to help free their country.

"The Perfect Mile" is the story of Oxford medical student Roger Bannister, Australian runner John Landy, and ambitious American athlete Wes Santee to be the first to complete the mile in under four minutes. The diverse trio had opposing personalities and running styles, and the winner, Bannister, completed the mile in 3:59:4 in 1954.

When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.

Underappreciated NFL referees seek what's owed them by manipulating the outcome of the Super Bowl.

When Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) finds himself running dead last in the corporate rat race, he sinks to an all time low...he attempts to rig the Special Olympics by pretending to be intellectually challenged. But, Barker is completely out-classed by his fellow Olympians, who are not only better athletes; they're just plain better people. And they're on to him. But rather than rat-out the rat, they join forces with him to once and for all beat Jimmy, the cocky reigning champion of the annual games. With a work-out regime uniquely their own, they train Barker to go for the gold and, in the process, show him what's at the heart of a true winner.

"Undercover Brother" director Malcolm Lee's next project is "The Rucker", set in Harlem, one of New York City's hot spots of street basketball. The story follows two players, one black and one white, who are competing for the MVP award in an important tournament that could launch their NBA careers.

A shambolic Midlands soccer team is accidentally invited to play against a top-league German team.

A group of recent college graduates get in over their heads when they volunteer to coach a youth-league football team.

A down-and-out baseball fan finds a ball autographed by the 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers and inscribed "To Wally Ward." The fan, determined to return the historic ball to its original owner, goes through a journey of self-discovery on his hunt for the mysterious Ward.